When a house catches on fire, we assume that a smoke alarm inside will serve one purpose and one purpose only: warn the ...

The concern with the cervical herniated disk and the popular whiplash injury as a source of pain in the upper extremity may exclude consideration of a more distal origin of such pain. It is the ...

The diagnosis and treatment of injury to the peripheral nervous system is one of the greatest challenges in orthopaedic surgery. These common injuries with potentially devastating results provide ...

A study by Dr. Bo He and co-workers from the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in China showed that predictors of outcome after the repair of peripheral nerve injuries include age, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Aside from the hand, the most common level of amputation in the upper extremity is the transradial amputation; ...

Patients who undergo surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome and other upper extremity nerve compression syndromes are more likely to have a diagnosis of migraine headaches, reports a study in the December ...

BECAUSE of the interest in the recent publication on peripheral entrapment neuropathies of the upper extremity, 1 it was decided to review these conditions in the lower extremity. An entrapment point ...

The majority of peripheral nerve injuries are best treated by a thoughtful surgical reconstruction. However, nonoperative treatment is indicated in several circumstances. The first of these is injury ...